(ANSA) - Rome, February 26 - Italian anti-terrorist police on Friday arrested a Macedonian national in Mestre near Venice for allegedly recruiting aspiring mujahideen to fight for Islamist State (ISIS) militants after being radicalised by a Bosnian imam. The man, Ajhan Veapi, was arrested after a probe into several people of Balkan origin in northeastern Italy who allegedly set up a network of recruitment and indoctrination of foreign fighters, police said. Venice Prosecutor Adelchi D'Ippolito said Veapi was "one of the most active ISIS recruiters in northeastern Italy".
The probe has already led to the expulsion of another two Macedonians and a Moroccan, police said.
Police had also tracked three foreign fighters - one Macedonian and two Bosnians - who left Italy for Syria.
Two of them were killed in 2013 and 2014, police said.
Macedonian arrested for recruiting jihadists
'One of most active ISIS recruiters'